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ARTICLE 21
PROFESSORS,  TEACHERS  AND  RESEARCHERS

 

1.             An individual who is or was immediately before visiting a Contracting State a resident of the other Contracting State, and who, at the   invitation   of   any  university,   college,    school  or  other    similar educational institution which is recognized by the competent authority in the first-mentioned Contracting State, visits that first-mentioned Contracting  State for a  period not exceeding two years solely for the purpose of  teaching or researching or both at such educational institution shall be exempt from tax in that other Contracting State on any remuneration for such teaching or research.

 

2.             The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to income from  researching if such research is undertaken by the individual primarily for the private benefit of a specific person or persons.

 

ARTICLE 22
OTHER  INCOME

 

1.             Items of income of a resident of a Contracting State, wherever arising,  not dealt with in the foregoing Articles of this Convention shall be taxable only in that State.

 

2.             The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to income, other than income from immovable property, as defined in paragraph 2 of Article 6, if the recipient of such income, being a resident of a Contracting State, carries on business in the other Contracting State through a permanent establishment situated therein, or performs in that other State independent personal services from a fixed base situated therein, and the right or property in respect of which the income is paid is effectively connected with such permanent establishment or fixed base.  In such case the provisions of Article 7 or Article 14, as the case may be, shall apply.   

 

ARTICLE 23
ELIMINATION  OF  DOUBLE TAXATION

 

1.             Where a resident of a Contracting State derives income which, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention, may be taxed in the other Contracting State, the first-mentioned State shall allow as a deduction from the tax on the income of that resident, an amount equal to the income tax paid in that other State. Such deduction in either case shall not, however, exceed that part of the income tax, as computed before the deduction is given, which is attributable, as the case may be, to the income which may be taxed in that other State.

 

2.             For the purpose of paragraph 1 of this Article income derived by a resident of one of the Contracting States which may be taxed in the other Contracting State in accordance with this Convention shall be deemed to be derived from the sources of that other Contracting State.

 

3.          Where the amount of tax exempted or reduced under certain special economic incentive measures provided by domestic legislation of a Contracting State is deemed to have been paid in a Contracting State, then it shall become deductible from tax of the other Contracting State.

 

 

ARTICLE 24
  NON - DISCRIMINATION

 

1.             Nationals of a Contracting State shall not be subjected in the other Contracting State to any taxation or any requirement connected therewith which is other or more burdensome than the taxation and connected requirements to which nationals of that other State in the same circumstances are or may be subjected.

 

2.             The taxation on a permanent establishment which an enterprise of a Contracting State has in the other Contracting State shall not be less favourably levied in that other State than the taxation levied on enterprises of that other State carrying on the same activities.

 

3.             Stateless persons who are residents of a Contracting State shall not be subjected in either Contracting State to any taxation or any requirement connected therewith, which is other or more burdensome than the taxation  and connected requirements to which nationals of the State concerned in the same circumstances are or may be subjected.

 

4.             Except where the provisions of Article 9, paragraph 8 of Article 11, or paragraph 6 of Article 12, apply, interest, royalties and other disbursements paid by an enterprise of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State shall, for the purpose of determining the taxable profits of such enterprise, be deductible under the same conditions as if they had been paid to a resident of the first-mentioned State.

 

5.             Enterprises of a Contracting State, the capital of which is wholly or partly owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by one or more residents of the other Contracting State, shall not be subjected in the first-mentioned State to any taxation or any requirement connected therewith which is other or more burdensome than the taxation and connected  requirements to  which other similar enterprises of the first-mentioned State are or may be subjected.

 

6.             The provisions of this Article shall not be construed as obliging a Contracting State to grant to residents of the other Contracting State any personal allowances, reliefs and reductions for taxation purposes on account of civil status or family responsibilities which it grants to its own residents.

 

7.             The provisions of this Article shall only apply to the taxes which are the subject of this Convention.

 

ARTICLE 25
MUTUAL  AGREEMENT  PROCEDURE

 

1.             Where a resident of a Contracting State considers that the actions of one or both of the Contracting States result or will result for him in taxation not in accordance with this Convention, he may, irrespective of the remedies provided by the domestic laws of  those States, present his case to the competent authority of the Contracting State of which he is a resident.  The case must be presented within three years from the first notification of the action resulting in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of this Convention.

 

2.             The competent authority shall endeavour, if the objection appears to it to be justified and if it is not itself able to arrive at a satisfactory solution, to resolve the case by mutual agreement, with the competent authority of the other Contracting State with a view to the avoidance of taxation which is not in accordance with the Convention.

 

3.             The competent authorities of the Contracting States shall endeavour to resolve by mutual agreement any difficulties or doubts arising as to the interpretation or application of the Convention.  They may also consult together for the elimination of double taxation in cases not provided for in the Convention.

 

4.             The competent authorities of the Contracting State may communicate with each other directly, including through a joint commission consisting of themselves or their representatives,  for the purposes of reaching an agreement in the sense of the preceding paragraphs.

 

Last updated: 08.12.2011